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JOSTEIN GAARDNER
Solitaire Mystery
My advice to all those who are going to find themselves is: stay
exactly where you are. Otherwise you are in danger of losing yourself
forever.
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People would have gone absolutely wild if the astronomers had
discovered another living planet. They just don't let themselves
be amazed by their own.
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Even though the universe is huge, it doesn't necessarily mean
that this planet is a pea.
NEIL GAIMAN
Angel: "The Lord told you when he gave you this land that you
were to drive out the original owners... and you didn't! So from
now on, you're in big trouble! God has ordained you will start
worshipping their gods... and every time you do that, God's gonna
get angrier! Got it? You shoulda wiped out the Canaanites while
you had the chance! It's divine justice!"
Man: "Sounds like divine fascist crap to me!"
- The Book of Judges
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the
darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares
are still walking. When we hold each other, we feel -- not safe,
but better. "It's all right," we whisper. "I'm here. I love you."
And we lie, "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the
darkness doesn't seem so bad. When we hold each other.
- Hold Me
"Love...
"Have you ever been in love?
"Horrible, isn't it?
"It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens
your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you
up.
"You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor,
for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no
different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid
life...
"You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do
something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then
your life isn't your own anymore.
"Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and
leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'Maybe
we should just be friends' or 'How very perceptive' turns into
a glass splinter working its way into your heart.
"It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind.
It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart
pain.
"Nothing should be able to do that.
"Especially not love.
"I hate love."
- 'Sandman: The Kindly Ones'
The poet: "...Really, I just want you to hurt me."
Desire: "Oh, I always do that."
- 'How They Met Themselves'
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Seven times have I despised my soul:
The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain
height.
The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled.
The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and
the easy, and she chose the easy.
The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself
that others also commit wrong.
The fifth time when she forbore for weakness, and attributed her
patience to strength.
The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew
not that it was one of her own masks.
And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed
it a virtue.
Are you a soldier compelled by the harsh law of man to forsake
wife and children, and go forth into the field of battle for the
sake of Greed, which your leaders mis-call Duty?
GLADIATRESS
- a movie
Bartender: "No women here."
Smirgut: "Oh. Better go then. Just one thing..."
Bartender: "Yes?"
Smirgut: *punches the lights out of the bartender* "Anything.
Large. No straw."
"Oh, Firmus! Why do I feel so happy?"
"Because you know tonight you get some."
"Yes. Yes, probably."
"And, perhaps, too you are happy because you are hot like
a candle, and you know that after dinner I will pleasure you in
a thousand ways and leave your body like a pool of melted wax."
"Oh Firmus, I do believe you're flirting."
Worthaboutapig: "I like being a slave. I've got perimeters
and a sense of belonging. I had something called a bath."
Smirgut: "This is the invidious nature of the slave system.
The individual feels gratitude towards the oppressor for removing
the inherent conflicts of the liberated self. This could take
about 2000 years to work through. Try a slap."
Worthaboutapig: (slaps herself) "I'm cured!"
Jean: "Mon Dieu!"
Worthaboutapig: "What?"
Jean: "Your tits! Do you mind if I..."
Worthaboutapig: "Yes! Not until you've swept the floor. And
given me a backrub and made the dinner."
Jean: "Sure, baby. Sure!" (bustles)
Worthaboutapig: "...YES!"
HERB GOLDBERG
It is very much in style today to urge men to feel. However,
this urging is partially reminiscent of taunting a crippled man
to run.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love,
and abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many
real ones to encounter.
REMY DE GOURMONT
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
GRAHAM GREENE
Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
GERMAINE GREER
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism,
lust, masochism, fantasy under mythology of sentimental postures,
a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding anf masking
the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship,
in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments
and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
The Whole Woman
Nagging is simply complaining no one is listening to, grievance
relay that gets nowhere.
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Moreover the fact that a sex act may be meant to humiliate and
degrade does not necessarily mean that it does humiliate and degrade.
We do not have to accept the rapist's script.
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Of all the parts of a man that can hurt, penis is the least.
MATT GROENING
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly
it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels
come.
Love is just a simple-minded little euphenism for a grab-bag
of primitive sexual impulses, unrelenting neediness, neurotic
anxiety, and brain-squeezing social pressure. You're pushed to
couple with your so-called soulmate with all the poetry and rapture
of two sea slugs encountering each other on the bottom of the
ocean.
- Binky's Guide to Love
GROSSE POINTE
- a TV-series
"Boys are naked and girls are having orgasms."
"This is just wrong."
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